From the Santa Fe website: Mayor Coss holds a bachelors degree in Wildlife Science from New Mexico State University and a masters degree in Zoology from Southern Illinois University. After completing his masters degree, Mayor Coss worked as a surface water scientist for the state of New Mexico. During this time, he became active in his union and worked to create the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) and became Director of the Environmental Protection Division within NMED.

In 1995, Mayor Coss became Santa Fe's Public Works director, where he was instrumental in creating the Santa Fe River Masterplan and worked on the river restoration between St. Francis Drive and Camino Alire.

As City Councilor, Mayor Coss co-sponsored Santa Fes Living Wage Ordinance, a landmark law which has drawn national and international recognition. He also co-sponsored the Neighborhood Bill of Rights, which empowers local residents to maintain the integrity of their neighborhoods; and Santa Fe Homes, requiring all new developments built within the city to include 30% affordable housing.

Santa Fe is wacko because of all the artsy-fartsy imports from NY and CA. They are utterly detached from reality. I guess they were drawn in by Georgia O'Keeffe's labia art. Santa Fe is now just plain unaffordable. New Mexico used to be much more conservative overall. Remember that just because a small town like Santa Fe is the state capital, that doesn't mean the whole state is crazy Left. A loosely-organized coalition of activists stopped ALL gun control legislation in New Mexico during the 2013 legislative session. I was amazed at how many people joined in. Remember there are a lot of free-thinkers of the go-west style here (old rancheros and new-generation frontiersmen -- even techies), and we have many military installations and 2 of the U.S.'s highest profile defense-related research labs.

I could be wrong, but don’t expect dramatic changes in Santa Fe. There are still good folk there, but the growing rich import community by-and-large can afford to be stupid and fiddle while state and country burns. They celebrate the Obamination while they drive around in Jaguars and live in $2 million houses. Santa Fe is one of the few cities in the 4 corners where you see Southeby’s real estate signs.

Well this is good news. I try to stay in my neck of the woods and out of Santa Fe, but it can’t always be avoided. I like to throw my pistol into the center console, and I don’t have any low capacity magazines for it.

My big beef with Santa Fe is that it has big city prices with hick town wages. The artsy fartsy liberals and CA imports, along with the Eastern imports brought all the high prices of real estate and living, but they didn’t bring wages that allow the peons to survive while working for them.

Then again, it’s been about 15 years since I actually had to work and spend time in Santa Fe, so things might have changed.

“Santa Fe is wacko because of all the artsy-fartsy imports from NY and CA. They are utterly detached from reality.”

Not unlike Austin, TX, Madison, WI, Sacramento, CA, Las Vegas, NV , you pick the city. These places all have a disproportionate influence on the states in which they are located. In places like New Mexico, it’s just more pronounced because it is more isolated.

Oh, yeah. One of my closest friends in the biz lives near Castro, and just heads to L.A. if he has some projects for the Travel Channel as an exec producer. Our agreement is that he won’t criticize me for living close to W Hollywood aka Fagtown and I won’t get on him for living near Castro.

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posted on 06/27/2013 12:07:47 PM PDT
by max americana
(fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))

You folks in Santa Fe had best be taking names——take those two yes votes and make their lives miserable. Running them out of town would be a nice touch. Keeping them as tokens is not productive because, as has been noted, you can’t fix STUPID.

From what little I know about Gary Johnson I like him . . . I’d like to see a powerful and credible libertarian ticket (Rand Paul/Gary Johnson?) win the White House with a 34 percent vote in 2016. The Dems and the GOP are the same party with different names.

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